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Muffling stray interference will be a more difficult job. Most of the new electronic gadgetry-color TV sets, arc welders, diathermy machines-are potential electromagnetic polluters. As the Government's watchdog over the air waves, the Federal Communications Commission was recently authorized to take stiffer action against manufacturers of interference-causing equipment. But even though investigations of complaints have already been increased sharply, the FCC does not expect to achieve what engineers call electromagnetic compatibility very soon. "The smog will be with us for a long time," says one FCC official. "We'll have to suffer with...
...ruggers demolished M.I.T. in a pre-season scrimmage. 23-3, but expect stiffer competition today. Ordway said yesterday that the team showed potential in the M.I.T. scrimmage and that "we have the material...
...like a second skin," he claims. "As you wear them, they change shape a little and mold themselves to the contours of the body." Rings differ too. Budweiser's rings are light and flexible, Miller High Life's are "soft," and Pepsi's provide a heavier, stiffer garment...
...debating with himself," a friend said last week, "over whether to continue in the Cabinet." A recent meeting between Dayan and Opposition Leader Menahem Begin threw a scare into the ruling Labor Party leadership. Such a threat to her coalition has caused Mrs. Meir to adopt a stiffer line in the face of Washington's pressure. After a heated debate, her advisers decided last weekend to continue with the talks but to delay Ambassador Tekoah's return to New York until late this week or even later...
...near collapse of the U.S. (and Japanese) stock market together with a steady continuing deterioration in the liquidity position of the dollar, plus the reluctant relative militance of labor leaders under fire from the rank and file, inspired anxious financiers collected in Brussels last month to renew demands for stiffer doses of the control medicine in the U.S. itself. Indeed, given the institutionalized vacillation in Washington on tax and spending austerity measures (the Congressional cave-in summarized in the tax reform collage of last year and the Nixon Administration's surrender to cost-plus defense contractors) leading financial circles have...